Apropos of nothing in particular....
The ABC can afford to cut its budget by as much as $200m and still maintain a quality service, according to the communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull.
The Australian Broadcast Company has a budget of around a Billion.











The ABC dresses even further to the left than the CBC. And you can interpret "dresses" any way you like.
Betcha they could cut another $800 million and nobody would notice.
The problem with liberals is that they reject free market
economics. They will drive any enterprise into a ditch
for this reason. They also have zero diversity of opinion,
unlike Fox News which is fairly well balanced. This results
in the kind of stupidity we witnessed with the Dixie Chicks.
If you want to be a success, you do not alienate half of
your potential audience, especially the core of your
fan base, Southern Rednecks.
Between this and Internet competition, media outlets and
newspapers are circling the drain. And they are clueless
as to how to survive. As MSNBC slides into oblivion, they
continue to hire unhinged Moonbats. What they need to do
is emulate Fox.
Fox has more viewers than CNN,MSNBC,CNBC and FBN combined.
Diversity of opinion will save them, but they are so driven
by a form of ideological tunnel vision, they will drive their
businesses into bankruptcy!
Well said.
Now if only we could convince our current government to make some major cuts to CBC. In fact, cut it totally, or privatize, or sell it. Sigh, this will not happen as there are too many Red Tories (liberals) in PM Harper's government.
Yeah CBC needs a reduction of taxpayer subsidy bigtime.....Like that Herbert fella, despite an obscene salary...run up an equaly obscene expence account. IMHO nobody especially him rates that sorta pay.
One thing (1) that Maurice Strong did of merit was cut his annual salary, from Ontario Hydro, to about $400,000 from the 3/4 mill his predecessor took. IMHO $400,000 was a still damn good screwing....
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i stopped watching cbc, ctv and global news entirely because i was starting to scream at the tv every time they launched into one of their politically correct fairy tales that they pass off as news.
i can't imagine how peter mansbridge even looks at himself in the mirror.
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well Leo, we have to be honest now, one reason Fox has so many viewers is that there are not that many "right wing" outlets. If there were as many to the rite as to the left, then Fox might not be so lucky. Then again, if the leftard outlets realized why they did so poorly they would probably lose the viewers they have if they changed. The left and truth are mutually exclusive.
Its way past time to ditch the CBC, why does any country need a news organization that promotes its own liberal/NDP agenda that is thinly disguised as news. Its the information age, real news is available 24/7 on every computer in the world. Peter Mansbridge and the rest of the CBC flunkies should be selling used cars or working as telemarketers.
No kidding, me too. I try to watch for 5 minutes, but Chris Gailus and his band of perfect acolytes just make me sick, with almost every "story".
They are ALWAYS right. They love to lecture us about what the PROPER thing to do is. They LOVE annystate government, as th government is always at fault for not doing enough.
They make me sick. Their only qualifications seem to be a pretty smile, and sometimes, a determined look, while sounding authoritarian.
Oh, and reading from the script without pause is essential.
Life is better without listening to their nonsense.
In the same week that the report cam out saying that we have too many police, globull had a fluff story on how the cops want to have an electronic system to determine how and what drivers are texting from their phones while in their vehicles. Overkill, intrusive, and authoritarian, yet, there's globull espusing the wonder of it all, and how good it was.
Too many police enforcing nannystate laws, too many repeaters, er, reporters, being propagandists for a police state
Ken, thank you. Ken and Sasquatch, the problem as I see it
is that J school is more infested with socialist Moonbats
than cockroaches in an inner city crack-house.
If the private organizations are this biased, I have
little hope government enterprises will ever reform. Not
being a Canadian, I do not know how bad things are, but I have
seen the anti-American protests in England and every damn
Aussie I have ever met was as leftist as they come. They
had to be brainwashed by a constant stream of BBS and ABS.
I quit watching American PBS decades ago because they were
praising Daniel Ortega, Castro and the Rosenberg's. It was
so bad that even their nature shows will filled with communist
propaganda.
They do not have to satisfy stockholders or show a profit.
their only objective is suck more and more taxpayers hard
earned money! They will never change.
"Peter Mansbridge and the rest of the CBC flunkies should be selling used cars or working as telemarketers."
I would love to hang up on these doofus's right now I just don't watch them as I cut off cable over a year ago. Haven't missed it even a little bit.